Ballboi, it was tough to pick a better (or least worse) between those two, which were close. Speaking of updating the list–after yesterday’s viewing of Tintin…
Arthur Christmas (very nice but not tremendous)
Winnie the Pooh (short and sweet, but how much hunny can one eat?)
Rio (fun but light as a feather)
Rango (excellent for two acts, diminished by the third)
The Adventures of Tintin* (a fun and cool ride, somewhat hampered by technical details)
Gnomeo and Juliet (fun, with a weak ending)
Mars Needs Moms* (better than its reputation)
Hoodwinked Too! (not awful, but easily the bottom of the 2011 barrel)
[ * = motion capture…I don’t consider it animation, but others might]
The other thing is that many movies haven’t been released on DVD yet, such as Puss in Boots and Adventures of TinTin. I consider my list of 2011 movies still incomplete.
The Adventures of Tintin comes out on DVD on March 19th (in the UK at least) and Puss In Boots comes out on April 2nd (I assume that’ll be earlier in the US). So it has to sort of be mid-year because by that time all of the 2011 films will have had DVD releases .
Cars 2
I thought the animation was good, like the part when Holley and Finn were going up that elevator thing at the party in Japan. They looked so shiny and real! There were more characters I really liked in this one more than the first one. In the first one, there was Red, and in this one, there were Red, Francesco, and Finn.
Kung Fu Panda 2
I like the action and setting. I also love the characters. I love how they portray a snake as a good character (Viper).
Rio
I love birds, so that’s enough.
Rango
I thought the characters were cute. I didn’t like how it was kind of dark, and how they portayed a snake negatvely. He’s not really the villain, but I still feel like it was negative.
Gnomeo and Juliet
It was interesting and a cute variation on the story. I also like that Elton John was involved in it, and his music was in it.